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My computer needed to restart for an OS update. I did so; after restart, all of the currently-showing tabs in Orion (and only those tabs) were in a weird, locked-up state.

More detail: in each Orion window, the tab that is currently displaying is not immediately responsive. For example, if I try to scroll that tab, nothing happens -- until I click away to some other window, and then the tab shows the scrolled view. Similarly, in my Gmail tab, if I click on an email nothing happens -- until I click away, at which point the email that I had clicked on displays.

All other tabs are working fine, and if I open a new tab with the same URL as a locked-up one, that works fine. It's only the tabs that were displaying when I rebooted that are in this strange state.

I don't have time to do another reboot, so I don't know if it easily repros. Updating to MacOS 14.2.1 (23C71) was when this occurred.

Normal functionality.

Version 0.99.126.4.1-beta (WebKit 618.1.2)

Sonoma (14)

    Possibly related: I just opened this page -- https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67916142 -- by clicking "Open in New Tab" from a link on another page, and had the same thing happen to it. It briefly responded to scrolling, then "locked up" in the same way: when I try to scroll, nothing changes in the display until I click outside the browser, at which point it immediately scrolls to where it should be.

    I suspect that the exact page isn't relevant; I include it mainly for completeness. (Opening a new tab on the same page works just fine, but the original tab is persistently broken.) But it appears that whatever the problem is, it's not only happening when the browser reopens after restart. Somehow, pages are able to get into this weird state.

    I'll keep an eye open to see if I can come up with a recipe; this example was one of hundreds of "Open in New Tab" operations that I've done, so it isn't anything simple. Clearly something is causing the event loop to get weirdly hosed, but no idea what...

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